Publishing at any cost: a cross-sectional study of the amount that medical researchers spend on open access publishing each year.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

To estimate the financial costs paid by individual medical researchers from meeting the article processing charges (APCs) levied by open access journals in 2019.

Design

Cross-sectional analysis.

Data sources

Scopus was used to generate two random samples of researchers, the first with a senior author article indexed in the 'Medicine' subject area (general researchers) and the second with an article published in the ten highest-impact factor general clinical medicine journals (high-impact researchers) in 2019. For each researcher, Scopus was used to identify all first and senior author original research or review articles published in 2019. Data were obtained from Scopus, institutional profiles, Journal Citation Reports, publisher databases, the Directory of

SUBMITTER: Ellingson MK 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7852964 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature